Baked Bananas

Ingredients

• each banana
• two heaping table-spoonfuls of butter
• a cupful of powdered sugar
• the unbeaten whites of two eggs
• a half-cupful of boiling water
• the same quantity of sherry wine

Method

1. 1

   Tear a strip of skin from each banana and lay them in a baking pan with a little water.

2. 2

   Bake for twenty-five minutes.

3. 3

   Remove skins, serve on a hot platter with a sauce made by rubbing butter and sugar to cream, adding beaten egg whites, boiling water, and sherry, then frothing in a double boiler.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 186. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

each banana, and lay the fruit, the peeled side uppermost, in a baking - pan. Pour a very little water in the bottom of the pan, cover closely, and bake the bananas for twenty-five minutes. Remove the skins, lay the fruit on a hot platter, and serve with a sauce made as fol- lows : Rub two heaping table-spoon- fuls of butter and a cupful of powdered sugar to a cream, add the unbeaten whites of two eggs, and beat until very light. Into this stir a half-cupful of boiling water and the same quan- tity of sherry win

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